European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday october 27,198b air piracy Case new York a three haitian soldiers who stormed a new York bound Jelliner earlier this month pleaded innocent Mon Day to air piracy charges. Lawyers for the soldiers said they were negotiating a plea agreement with the government. The men members of an Cine army unit known As the leopards were arraigned in Brooklyn s fed eral court on an indictment that charged them with air piracy an interfering with a Light Crew. They were accused of boarding american airlines flight 658 import a Prince Haiti on ocl. 1 and demanding that they be taken to the United slates. Authorities said each of the three was carrying loaded automatic assault Rifle which each surrendered one the plane was in the air. Piper Alpha bodies Aberdeen. Scotland a the first five bodies recovered from the remains of the devastated Piper Alpha Oil platform were flown to Aberdeen on monday for identification police said. The bodies were found in the platform s main living Section which Sank to the seabed in the explosion and tire july 6 but was retrieved and brought to the Ork Ney islands off the northernmost lip of Scotland. Twa privatization new York a trans world airlines inc. Monday announced that the plan of the chair Man. Carl Icahn to take the airline private has been  said the Way Lor the privatization plan was cleared when a Dela Ware court denied a request by so Metwa shareholders for an immediate injunction blocking the scheme arson arrests Paris a police con ducted a series of Early morning raids and searches tuesday arrest ing 30 people of the extreme right in connection with the fire that burned a latin Quarter Cine a showing the last temptation of  sources said the raids began about 6 . And All 30 peo ple were being held for questioning about the tire late saturday that injured 13 people. Police said twas arson. Two of the injured remained hospitalized. Hirohito gets blood Tokyo up Japan s ailing emperor Hirohito tuesday received an emergency transfusion of More than a pint of blood after a sudden and considerable blood loss but Palace spokesman said he was quickly brought Back to a stable condition and was resting comfortably. Imperial Palace spokesman Kanji Maeda told a hastily called 6 . News conference that after completing a third Day without a transfusion the 87-year-old Mon Arch discharged a Large amount of blood tuesday afternoon. He said chief court physician Akira Takagi countered the loss with a transfusion of 1-2 pints of blood. Army worried by rising cases of dangerous tick borne illness by Chuck Washington Washington r having 200 to 300 Chest a rays a of Ofca Germany rec mfr set radon action limits at the equivalent of 6.6 Pico juries the limit for new houses in swe Den is 2 Pic curies v extensive testing and research pro Grams Are under Way in Britain West Germany Sweden Norway and Switzer land. It s going to Lake a Long to Down the houses at risk said Gaines of the National Radioli Toction Board in Britain. We  until uie end of the Century. Recent european studies have found up to 190,000 Homes in West Ger Many Nave radon Levels above govenis ment safety standards and about 2,000radon-related deaths occur annually. Ini tial tests show the highest Levels in the South and Southwest. More than 20,000 British Homes have High radon Levels and 800 to 900 people die annually As a result of expo sure to it. The radiological Protection Board is testing a Sample 17,000 Homes most of them in Devon and Cornwall where the problem is most serious. In Sweden about 40,000 Homes have unsafe Levels of radon and roughly60,000 houses Are tested each year. More than 700 deaths a year Are attributed to the Gas and officials say the rate could reach 1,100 in the Early 1990s. Homes in volcanic areas of the upper Lazio Region North of Rome had Italy s highest radon concentrations. Most Homes in Denmark Holland Belgium Spain and Greece showed Little radon risk to  officials have said radon is not a serious health risk in that country and some have discounted publicity about the Gas in the United states and else where. It s a question that s been a bit blown up in the Media said Jean Pierre Moroni of the government radiation control Agency. There s a very simple measure. Open a window when you get up. It s a matter of Good Sens. It amounts to not living All closed  s w Dange Iro Nuon Muur a. I us copter crash kills 8 on anti drug operation v 4 an army National guard helicopter carrying sheriffs deputies from four counties in an anti drug surveillance Mission Nasf the . Mexican Border crashed into Power fines Strung Between hilltops killing All eight people aboard officials said to today. The helicopter went Down in the foot Hills of the Laguna mountains at 9 30 . Monday while on patrol for opera Tion Border Ranger described As a joint anti drug smuggling operation conducted by six Southern California sheriffs departments and the Federal government. All of the victims died instantly when the chopper burst into flames the statement said. In Washington chief Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said the crash was observed by a spotter helicopter that was flying at a higher Altitude. Howard had said initial reports indicated the helicopter was chasing a suspected drug vehicle when it crashed however National guard maj. Steve Mensik said the Crew a on patrol when it observed a vehicle parked with lights off on a Remote Access Road. They were in the process of descending to get a closer look at the suspect vehicle. Apparently at about 500 feel they struck Power line that had been Strung Between cd with the Imperial county  Orange county sheriffs do Lily Mark Steve Tonkin 31, of China and los Angeles county sheriff deputies Roy a. Chester 41 and James d. Mcaweeney 4j.riverside county supervisors identified he Tifuh Law enforcement officer who was lulled As Riverside county sheriffs Deputy Mike Davis. Also aboard the Craft was a three Man California army National guard  three were not immediately identified